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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 26, 1939.

Exercises At Home To Learn To Swim

BY PATRICIA LINDSAY

Personally, I think the best way to be taught to swim is to be thrown into water at an early age and told to sink or swim! Of course, you must be of tender years when danger is just a lark, for the older you grow the greater your fear of the water, if you never have learned how to keep up on its surface!

But if you are truly interested in wanting to learn to swim there is, a certain exercise you can practise at

the hips and knees. (As the knees pass each other during the kicking, they should barely brush). If you are kicking correctly, the up-beat is felt in the stomach muscles, the down- bent is felt in the back muscles.

Practice this for about two minutes, rest, and repeat. Do it every single day until it becomes a rhythmic habit.

LEARN TO BREATHE One of the easiest ways to con- home, balanced on a stool or over a vince yourself that you will not chair. This is presented through the drown if you gulp a mouthful of courtesy of Victor Lawson, formerį water as you swim, 'is to duck your English long -- distance swimming face into a bowl of good drinking champion. He has taught many a water. Breathe in the water, do not lady the various strokes and crawls, swallow it, breathe it out again. You with no more water near her than a may keep your eyes open all of the bowl of it under her 'nose!

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You can learn to swim at home

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if you practice this exercise.

ordinary in and out of your mouth without chair. Lie face down and support you swallowing a bit of it. Through yourself with your hands in any forceful breathing you push it out, manner you wish, but keep your much as a porpoise does. legs and feet free of the floor as high The secret of good swimming tech- as the supported part of your body. nique is rhythmic breathing and kick- 2-Stretched out in this positioning which permits co-ordination of pretend to walk on air, taking short your body muscles. It is best to mincing steps, the toes turned slight-learn in shallow water so the fear of inward, with your feet a few inches drowning will be dispelled. It is a apart. Move your feet up and down good idea to hold your nose and squat in rhythm, first one then the other.under the water and come up again This is used in the Olympic crawl. just so you will feet the force of the 3-Continue this movement until water pushing your body to the sur- you can get more action in your leg face. In this way will lose your work, pretending you are trying to fear. shake your feet off from the ankles Swimming, particularly the good as you kick. The kick up and down old-fashioned breast stroke is excel- should not be more than ten inches. lent for your beauty. The breast Keep your legs relaxed, not tense, stroke, is one of the finest chest de- with scarcely any action in the knees.velopment exercise there is. If done The power in the kick comes from correctly it also distributes pounds of back and stomach muscles, not from 'flesh to where they belong!

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